Despite Rempang residents rejecting eviction to develop the Indonesian island into a solar hub tied to a deal exporting clean power to Singapore, authorities have begun house demolitions – some unannounced – under the project's “new phase”.
There is a 'massive gap between rhetoric and reality' that must be closed by new climate pledges being drafted under the Paris Agreement, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says.
A decline in the area burned globally by wildfires over the 20th century due to land-use change has almost entirely been offset by the increase caused by global warming, a new study says.